Hey there,
I'm Nikhil Sharma
I’m a full-stack engineer who turns bold ideas into polished, scalable products—fast. From first sketch to final launch, I build experiences people love.
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My career & experience
Cognitivo
Software Engineer
—Architected and delivered enterprise-grade full-stack applications using Next.js, React, TypeScript, Node.js, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Azure, Docker, and Payload CMS, contributing across AI platforms, internal products, collaboration tools, and customer-facing web applications.
- Designed and implemented a centralized forward-auth authentication and authorization platform using Nginx auth_request, JWT sessions, and RBAC to secure multiple enterprise applications behind a unified access-control layer, eliminating direct unauthorized access.
- Strengthened platform security by identifying and remediating 10+ production security vulnerabilities, including authorization flaws, user enumeration, injection attacks, session validation, rate limiting, and access-control weaknesses while improving authentication reliability.
- Engineered a complete electronic signature platform integrating DocuSeal Pro, Azure Blob Storage, and Microsoft Graph, delivering reusable templates, multi-signer workflows, webhook-driven processing, activity tracking, and automated document lifecycle management.
- Built enterprise collaboration capabilities including real-time WebSocket notifications, comment mentions, cookie-based authentication, Azure Blob Storage integration, audit logging, advanced search, invitation-based onboarding, and role-based workspace management across multiple internal products.
- Developed two production-ready Next.js + Payload CMS platforms from the ground up, replacing legacy CMS solutions with extensible systems supporting blogs, documentation, events, careers, contact management, SEO infrastructure, media management, draft previews, and custom administrative workflows.
- Automated infrastructure operations by building a database backup and disaster recovery service supporting MongoDB and PostgreSQL with scheduled backups, Azure Blob Storage replication, upload verification, retry mechanisms, monitoring, and Microsoft Graph email notifications.
- Established production deployment pipelines using Docker, GitHub Actions, Azure App Service, Azure Container Registry, and CI/CD, while diagnosing and resolving complex production issues involving cloud infrastructure, authentication, database connectivity, storage, and application deployment.
Mobyink Innovations
Full Stack Developer
—Delivered scalable, high-performance web applications for enterprise healthcare and commercial clients using the modern MERN stack.
- Led full-stack development and deployment cycles for flagship live projects including SDMH Durlabhji Hospital and Creative Homes.
- Designed highly intuitive user interfaces with Next.js, focusing heavily on accessibility and seamless responsive load times.
- Collaborated in fast-paced agile environments to enforce code quality, architectural best practices, and rapid release cycles.
Kodiva.ai (Liftu.tech)
SDE 1 – Front End Developer
—Drove frontend architecture and complex UI/UX implementations for core AI-driven products including Kodiva.ai and FayrEdge.
- Built resilient, scalable client-side applications utilizing Next.js, TypeScript, and dynamic design systems in Tailwind CSS.
- Developed unified user workflow components, directly improving measurable platform retention and overall usability.
- Operated closely within a 5-member cross-functional squad, executing strict Git version control and rigorous UI layout optimizations.
Education
Poornima College of Engineering
Graduated in May 2024
NK Public School
Graduated in March 2020
High School